Tactless

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Tactless \Tact"less\, a.
     Destitute of tact.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  tactless
       adj 1: lacking or showing a lack of what is fitting and considerate
              in dealing with others; "in the circumstances it was
              tactless to ask her age" [syn: {untactful}] [ant: {tactful}]
       2: showing skill in handling difficult situations [syn: {undiplomatic}]
       3: revealing lack of perceptiveness or judgment or finesse; "an
          inept remark"; "it was tactless to bring up those
          disagreeable" [syn: {inept}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  95 Moby Thesaurus words for "tactless":
     abrupt, airy, awkward, blanket, bluff, blunt, boorish, brash,
     brusque, bungling, caddish, careless, casual, clumsy, coarse,
     crude, cursory, degage, discourteous, disregardant, disregardful,
     disrespectful, easygoing, flippant, forgetful, free and easy,
     gauche, general, gruff, heedless, ill-bred, impertinent, impolite,
     impolitic, imprudent, inconsiderate, indelicate, indifferent,
     indiscreet, indiscriminate, indiscriminative, inept, injudicious,
     insensitive, insouciant, lazy, loutish, louty, maladroit, nasty,
     nonjudgmental, oblivious, offensive, offhand, perfunctory,
     promiscuous, reckless, regardless, respectless, rough, rude,
     thoughtless, uncivil, uncivilized, uncouth, uncritical,
     uncriticizing, undemanding, undifferentiating, undiplomatic,
     undiscreet, undiscriminating, undiscriminative, unexacting,
     unfastidious, unfeminine, ungenteel, ungentle, ungentlemanly,
     unheedful, unheeding, unladylike, unmeticulous, unmindful,
     unparticular, unrefined, unselective, unsolicitous,
     unsophisticated, unsubtle, untactful, unthinking, unwise, vulgar,
     wholesale